- Identification.—[Gibs. Fr. Gard.] 351.
- Synonymes.—Chucket Egg, [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, p. 10. Summer Teuchat Egg, [Leslie & Anders. Cat.]
Fruit, below medium size, varying in shape from ovate to conical, and irregularly ribbed on the sides. Skin, pale yellow, washed with pale red, and streaked with deep and lively red. Eye, partially closed, with long, broad segments, placed in a narrow and angular basin. Stalk, very short, imbedded in a close shallow cavity, with a fleshy protuberance on one side of it, and surrounded with rough russet. Flesh, tender, juicy, and pleasantly flavored.
A second-rate dessert apple, peculiar to the Scotch orchards of Clydesdale and Ayrshire; ripe in September.
Teuchat signifies, the Pee-wit or Lapwing.
360. TOKER’S INCOMPARABLE.
Fruit, very large, three inches and three quarters broad, and two inches and three quarters high, in shape, very much resembling the Gooseberry Apple; ovate, broad and flattened at the base, and with five prominent ribs on the sides which render it distinctly five-sided. Skin, smooth and shining, of a beautiful dark green, which assumes a yellowish tinge as it ripens; and with a slight trace of red, marked with a few crimson streaks, where exposed to the sun. Eye, large, and nearly closed, with broad flat segments, set in a saucer-like basin, which is surrounded with knobs, formed by the termination of the ribs. Stalk, a quarter of an inch long, inserted in a wide cavity, which is lined with a little rough russet. Flesh, yellowish, firm, crisp, tender, juicy, and marrow-like, with a brisk and pleasant acid.
A first-rate culinary apple, grown in the Kentish orchards, about Sittingbourne and Faversham; in use from November to Christmas.
361. TOWER OF GLAMMIS.—Hort.
- Identification.—[Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 835. [Leslie & Anders. Cat.] 43. Caled Hort. Soc. Mem. vol. iv. 474.
- Synonymes.—Glammis Castle, acc. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] Late Carse of Gowrie, Ibid. Carse of Gowrie, Caled. Hort. Soc. Mem, vol. i. 325. The Gowrie, in Clydesdale Orchards.